CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: Dry stony or rocky sandstone crests and gravelly hillsides, often in open woods; frequent. Aug. 20-Sept. Higher hills s. of Ithaca, crests of most of the ravines of the basin, and along the cliffs of Cayuga Lake : Connecticut Hill ; North Spencer ; White Church ; Cascadilla Creek; Fall Creek; Kidders ; Paine Creek; and elsewhere. E. Que. to Ont., southw. to Va., Ga., and Ohio; rare or absent on the Coastal Plain. An Alleghenian plant of noncalcareous regions.